For several years, I’ve been following the @RealTimeWWII Twitter account. It live-tweets the Second World War each day as it had happened—from Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, September 1939, to today, March 13, 1944, and beyond. All the time, it’s been both eerie and revolting to watch the alignment of bygone Nazi atrocities with the resurgence of white supremacist, evangelical, and straight-up Nazi organizations in the present—particularly in the U.S. and in the UK, two of the very countries who once fought the Nazis at immeasurable cost. And it was sickening to watch how the second great evil of that time, Stalinism, staged its very own revival and conspired with these organizations to erode democratic processes and consensus across Europe and in the U.S., culminating in the invasion of a free, independent European country with a Jewish president under the pretext of “denazification.” Also, thanks to years and years of “conservative” climate change denialism, criminal fossil-fuel companies, and rampant political corruption, large parts of the world now depend on fossil fuel shipments from this murderous dictator at a tune of $1 billion per day, to finance his campaign of mass slaughter and destruction during a worsening climate crisis triggered by that very fuel which we should’ve stopped using decades ago in the first place. Well done, and thanks to nobody for nothing.
Last week, I picked up my weekly routines of writing, editing, and publishing. It doesn’t help if I don’t (and I do other things that do). Among the stuff I put out was this linked-list item at just drafts about itch.io’s enormous Ukraine Charity Bundle, which will be open to your generous contribution for a few more days; a post at my Voidpunk blog on Artifact Age Civilizations in the Voidpunk Universe and in the Mythos; and some personal thoughts, Like, Every Day, on writing and publishing routines over at between drafts.
As to photos, I uploaded two new albums to Flickr, Pingyao II: Hospitality (10 images) and Berlin II: Boat Trip (20 images); two photographs on Glass, the entry passage to Mizuku Tempura & Sushi at Ngee Ann City, Singapore, and the door handles of Tai Dian Gate in Beijing’s Forbidden City; and several posts with commentaries on my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse.
No Sunday funnies as yet this week—except two bleak humor shots from pictures of the end that fit my mood: this soccer field and the Smile Room.
J.
Last week, I picked up my weekly routines of writing, editing, and publishing. It doesn’t help if I don’t (and I do other things that do). Among the stuff I put out was this linked-list item at just drafts about itch.io’s enormous Ukraine Charity Bundle, which will be open to your generous contribution for a few more days; a post at my Voidpunk blog on Artifact Age Civilizations in the Voidpunk Universe and in the Mythos; and some personal thoughts, Like, Every Day, on writing and publishing routines over at between drafts.
As to photos, I uploaded two new albums to Flickr, Pingyao II: Hospitality (10 images) and Berlin II: Boat Trip (20 images); two photographs on Glass, the entry passage to Mizuku Tempura & Sushi at Ngee Ann City, Singapore, and the door handles of Tai Dian Gate in Beijing’s Forbidden City; and several posts with commentaries on my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse.
No Sunday funnies as yet this week—except two bleak humor shots from pictures of the end that fit my mood: this soccer field and the Smile Room.
J.